RomulusUSA
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Well that was a clever thread title. Haha.
I have been growing for a bit over a year and have been in a 4x4 tent with a single 1000w all along. For veg, I made a table and put a plastic concrete tub on top, and am running 495w of PLL's over it. My total room space is 11.5x11.5 and there is a storage space (visible in the back of these pictures, the painted OSB) that takes up roughly 42x30" or so. The door to the room is directly behind where I was standing with my camera.
We did a bit of remodeling after the last crop finished, and I will get pictures of that up in the next couple of weeks after its all cleaned up and the plants move over. Now there is a pandafilm wall allowing 2 plants wide in the veg side, and 3 plants x 5 plants in the flower side. Obviously I need to access things, so it'll be 2x4 in the flower, and the lighting is 2x2000w HPS in Blockbuster hoods, and 1x1000w MH reasonably undersized hood IMO. It will be replaced with a Blockbuster before I run ducting - so pretty soon. Things are (barely) starting to warm up.
In the past, I ran 6 plants in the 4x4 with a 1000w HPS, in 5 gallon pots running Roots Organics soil and full line of nutrients. Now, I am trying out PureKnowledge's soil mix, and I decided to go with 20gal AirPots. These are base-less pots designed to be ran on soil for potatoes, but I picked up some massive 25" drip trays on which the pots sit. Due to space, I will be running 4 plants at a time in veg, and alternating harvests by roughly 5 weeks, which brings me to strand. Currently I am running a ~68 day plant that is a hybrid of California Orange x Skywalker. It tastes great, looks great, and gets you nice and high, but yield has always been kind of lacking. In the ballpark of 2oz/5gal, which is pretty bad. I’ve ran some other plants that pulled over double that. This next run will once again be COS as that is what I had, the next run will also be COS plus one local strain called AmFlame being that is what I have in 3gal pots right now. The future runs will be a combination of ATF, Blackberry Kush, and a couple others. I am really looking forward to getting the ATF and kushes in flower and seeing how they do.
The time frame for the plants has been a little messed up. They’ve been in pots for a long ass time, but I had to keep cutting them back to keep them small cuz I wasn’t ready to uppot. In the future I am estimating about 83 days leading up to 12/12, right now we’ll be looking at about a total of 107 days. I am planning to flip on 3/16, and at the same time up pot the next batch to 20’s and more of PK’s awesome soil mix. The plants really like it! I am going to be giving them some EWC teas soon too.
On to pics…
2/23/13
3/1/13
I have been growing for a bit over a year and have been in a 4x4 tent with a single 1000w all along. For veg, I made a table and put a plastic concrete tub on top, and am running 495w of PLL's over it. My total room space is 11.5x11.5 and there is a storage space (visible in the back of these pictures, the painted OSB) that takes up roughly 42x30" or so. The door to the room is directly behind where I was standing with my camera.
We did a bit of remodeling after the last crop finished, and I will get pictures of that up in the next couple of weeks after its all cleaned up and the plants move over. Now there is a pandafilm wall allowing 2 plants wide in the veg side, and 3 plants x 5 plants in the flower side. Obviously I need to access things, so it'll be 2x4 in the flower, and the lighting is 2x2000w HPS in Blockbuster hoods, and 1x1000w MH reasonably undersized hood IMO. It will be replaced with a Blockbuster before I run ducting - so pretty soon. Things are (barely) starting to warm up.
In the past, I ran 6 plants in the 4x4 with a 1000w HPS, in 5 gallon pots running Roots Organics soil and full line of nutrients. Now, I am trying out PureKnowledge's soil mix, and I decided to go with 20gal AirPots. These are base-less pots designed to be ran on soil for potatoes, but I picked up some massive 25" drip trays on which the pots sit. Due to space, I will be running 4 plants at a time in veg, and alternating harvests by roughly 5 weeks, which brings me to strand. Currently I am running a ~68 day plant that is a hybrid of California Orange x Skywalker. It tastes great, looks great, and gets you nice and high, but yield has always been kind of lacking. In the ballpark of 2oz/5gal, which is pretty bad. I’ve ran some other plants that pulled over double that. This next run will once again be COS as that is what I had, the next run will also be COS plus one local strain called AmFlame being that is what I have in 3gal pots right now. The future runs will be a combination of ATF, Blackberry Kush, and a couple others. I am really looking forward to getting the ATF and kushes in flower and seeing how they do.
The time frame for the plants has been a little messed up. They’ve been in pots for a long ass time, but I had to keep cutting them back to keep them small cuz I wasn’t ready to uppot. In the future I am estimating about 83 days leading up to 12/12, right now we’ll be looking at about a total of 107 days. I am planning to flip on 3/16, and at the same time up pot the next batch to 20’s and more of PK’s awesome soil mix. The plants really like it! I am going to be giving them some EWC teas soon too.
On to pics…
2/23/13
3/1/13
Good luck with the mix so far everything looks good!
Let me know how it goes with those pots.... I was looking at those at one time and then "TheHerbalizor" quoted saying he stopped using them cause he found bugs would just hide out in all the cracks and crevices those pots have to offer. He then went to Smart Pots and never looked back.
I bought 2 products. Really expensive but supposedly they are the absolute bomb when it comes to bug prevention. First one is called Aptus Bio Shark "Soil Attack"... All natural, you apply as a soil drench once every 21 days and apparently it keeps all soil born pests away. If you already have pests you use the stronger dosage and it will get rid of them. Owner of the American distributor told me they did a test where they applied this product every 2 weeks for a month in veg. It kept gnats away for 5 months after that!!! Dutch Touch on these forums swears by it and applies it every 21 days.
Bottle is small but it is super concentrated like everything Aptus makes. If it works its worth its weight in gold to me!
